... to its most extreme logical conclusion, it leads to the fetishism of death and the psychosexual arousal of automobile accidents. Ballard also has a lot of worrying things to say about our relationship with technology, as evidenced by Vaughan's desire to die in a head on collison with Elizabeth Taylor. In a sense in the aftermath of the crash his mangled body will become one with the wrecked car....
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8342589.stm Video gamers are being asked to join a Facebook group set up to help defend games from critics. Set up by MP Tom Watson, the group aims to coordinate responses to articles in the media which, gamers claim, do not give a fair view of their hobby. Mr Watson set up the group in reaction to comments from fellow Labour MP Keith Vaz who strongly ...
Well things have been pretty craptastic, technologically-wise. Just a month ago my mp4 player decided to do something wonky so I had it fixed... I'm supposed to be getting it this Saturday. I cannot imagine why it would have to take 1 month to get that done. No one explains to me these things... -_-; And then last week, my PC decided to rebel and die on me... Sorta. So I had it fixed and in the ...
... successfully—indeed, with admirable ingenuity and resourcefulness—met the challenge of an incursion from the future . . . met it and turned it to his own advantage by murdering some of the invaders, stealing their advanced technology, and keeping one woman as what amounts to a sex slave; or (3) some mix of (1) and (2). I find it hard to imagine a mainstream writer even conceiving of this story, ...
Could Advancing Job Automation Technology Cause Structural Unemployment? and One man...and while I agree that technology has the ability to change...why I call BS on "technology" dramatically eliminating labor is that...excessive over-centralization(and indeed, technology makes centralization easier, but that...s because generally, technology makes everything easier, including decentralization). And before...
Поздно вечером в воскресенье я отмечал в компании замечательных людей день рождения Старого Обезьяна . Дело происходило в квартире юбиляра недалеко от метро "Проспект Просвещения". В какой-то момент присутствующие осознали, что нужно пополнить запасы топлива. Мы с Женькой полезли в Яндекс.Адреса и ввели туда what= "норман" и where= "просвещения" .
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Коллеги и френды, наверное, уже слышали, что я давно ищу себе пристойный web-based personal finance tool.
До этого я десять лет своей жизни трекал персональные финансы на различных PDA. Сначала это был Palm с прекрасной связкой PMTxl/PSTxl. Потом это был зло еб учий Windows Mobile со вполне тем не менее функциональным IneSoft Cash Organizer Pro .
Как многие опять-таки возможно помнят...
В очередном прекрасном тексте про эпидемиологию гриппа нашлась чеканная формулировка, которая лично в моей жизни описывает почти все случаи исследований на серьёзные темы:
Источники: Гугель по нужным ключевым словам, по-русски для поиска феерической фигни, по-английски для поиска нормальных данных.
... A user comments that a specific form of coding gives him the best interaction with his adaptive technology, and an accessibility advocate politely explains that that form of coding is in violation of some ...model of disability and some of us feel broken. Some of us are wizards with our adaptive technology while others feel overwhelmed by functional loss. And (since some people need to be reminded, ...
... of this field with sociological perspectives on science and technology. I see my research project as developing by close investigation of advances in medical screening technology and surveillance. These advances have enabled medical professionals to give... to avoid the risks of future illness. Medical screening technology and surveillance enables patients to be aware of future ...
